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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Japan.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    If association with the rest of Europe had remained the creation of the Common Market I think the result of the Brexit vote would have been very different.  At least with a UK parliament we can get rid of the ruling party if we don't like what they are doing.  We have little or no control over the political direction of the EU.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    In another 4 years!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    We had seats in the European parliament based on population I think (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20180126STO94114/infographic-how-many-seats-does-each-country-get-in-in-the-european-parliament). Now we have NO say - so absolutely no control at all (but to trade with Europe we'll still need to adopt the standards they decide on in any area). The UK didn't take the EU seriously - so the European votes were a bit of a joke (https://europarl.europa.eu/election-results-2019/en/turnout/). But then it's not the Europeans' fault that the UK didn't see the benefits of the EU Parliament.
    I have strange views I know, but what I've seen in history is growth of groups. Hunter gatherer families, tribes, settlements,villages, towns, cities, city states, countries, empires and amalgamations. Fine - I know it sometimes backslides and some amalgamations are forced rather than consensual - but it has been a growth of 'man' and then ignoring tribal instintcs in favour of the greater 'good'. The issues faced by the world are now vastly tooooo big for a single nation to tackle. Whether the EU or the United States of Europe was/is the way who knows - but I can guarantee that associations will have to be formed to face the worlds issues.
    I just don't see the the promotion of 'self' that the US and UK have gone down is the right way to resolve issues. But it has happened and it's just a case of wait and see what role the UK takes outside the EU and what 'moral' leadership it gives to the world.



    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I see no chance of us providing any moral leadership. We seem to be in a race to the bottom.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Anna33Anna33 Posts: 316
    Nanny Beach said:
    The Spitfire has gone over the past 4 days, and every day I have missed seeing it!!!Grrrr.

    @Nanny Beach I think I've seen it! Do you know what it's flying over for? I have seen a lone plane a couple of times (including today) that looked from a distance like a Spitfire, but to be honest I'm not confident recognising which planes are which unless I'm told in advance, so thought it was just an uneducated assumption on my part!

    Was it for something in particular?
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Oh, Hubby is, where abouts are you.  I don't know why it flies over here, it is quite often, but not usually 4 days in a row.We are in a village just outside Eastbourne.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Could it be one of these flights?

    https://flyaspitfire.com/
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2020
    I always recognize a Spitfire by the growl of the Merlin engine long before I see it ... my Pa taught me 😎 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You can request a Spitfire flyover for a funeral of a war veteran. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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